Learning from variation
How can variation theory can be applied to the use of manipulatives to support understanding of early number? This report makes an important contribution to the existing literature on how to teach...
Publication series
BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports
Here you will find the public-facing final reports from each successful BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant, detailing key findings from the research project and how these findings might be taken forward.
The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation.
Click here for more information about the Curriculum Investigation Grant.
Content in this series
Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap
An investigation of how schools can, by working in and with local languages and dialects, raise pupils' educational attainment, cultural awareness and self-esteem.
Exploring task design as an enabler of leading teaching in secondary schools
This investigation of how theories of task design can support teaching offers tools to help teachers to develop pupils’ motivation and agency in relation to their subject.
Sharing the ambition: Play and parental interest in Scottish early years education
This report provides evidence from the Sharing the Ambition project, which investigates parents' perceptions of early years education in Scotland, what their priorities are in terms of settings'...
An empirical evaluation of ‘big questions’ as an organisational framework for interdisciplinary social studies in a Scottish high school
This research project assessed the impact on pupils and staff of a school-designed integrated social studies curriculum, aiming to apply insights from Big History and Big Questions to offer pupils...
Sounding right, sounding white: Interrogating language, race and curriculum in secondary education
Funded by the British Curriculum Forum Curriculum Investigation Grant 2021–2022, this project explored the impact of offering lower KS3 pupils a curriculum that contrasted significantly with the...
Can a whole-school curriculum focus on celebrating diversity reduce the volume of racist incidents?
This project, funded by the 2021–2022 British Curriculum Forum (BCF) Curriculum Investigation Grant, involved finding ways to celebrate diversity within a Welsh school and its school curriculum....
Diversifying our curriculum: Rediscovering the power of our narrative voices
Funded by the 2021–2022 British Curriculum Forum Curriculum Investigation Grant, this project aimed to investigate the degree to which a secondary school in England included a multitude of...
Nature connectedness through the arts
Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools
Towards curriculum design coherence in primary geography education for sustainability
This report shares the work of four primary teachers from the West Midlands of England involved in a curriculum investigation project funded by the British Curriculum Forum. The project aimed to...
Students as the co-creators of the sustainability curriculum
Developing an introductory course on climate change, social justice & sustainability
